Three international competitions of the festival are dedicated to feature films, short films and documentaries. The winners will be chosen, as usual, by the audience.

The High Sun / Zvizdan by Dalibor Matanić (produced by Kinorama in coproduction with Slovenia's Gustav film, and in association with SEE Film Pro from Serbia) will open the festival.

Winter Song/Chant d'hiver by Otar Iosseliani, coproduced by Georgia's Studio 99 and France's Pastorale Films, will close the festival. This year there are two sections dedicated entirely to Poland and Romania. For the second year running,  Trieste Film Festival will screen the winners of the Lux Prize.

A total of 22 projects from 19 countries will be presented at the sixth edition of When East Meets West, the Italian coproduction forum taking place on 24-26 January 2016.

International Feature Film Competition:

Dawn / Ausma (Latvia, Estonia, Poland)
Directed by Laila Pakalnina
Produced by Hargla Pictures
Coproduced by Digital Sputnik, Staron Film
Supported by the National Film Center of Latvia, Latvian Cultural Capital Foundation, Polish Film Institute

Homeland / Otadzbina (Serbia)
Directed by Oleg Novković

The Red Spider/ Czerwony pająk (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic)
Directed by Marcin Koszałka
Produced by MD4, Sokol Kollar and Fog’n’Desire Films
Supported by Polish Film Institute, Krakow Film Fund, Czech Film Fund and Slovak Audiovisual Fund

Babai (Germany, Kosovo, Macedonia, France)
Directed by Visar Morina

The World Is Mine / Lumea e a mea (Romania)
Produced by Libra Film, deFilm

Corpse Collector / Subirach na trupove (Bulgaria, Romania)
Directed by Dimitar Dimitrov
Produced by Magic Shop
Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center

The Summer of Sangaile / Sangaile (Lithuania, France, Netherlands)
Directed by Alanté Kavaïté
Produced by Fralita Films
Coproduced by Les Films d’Antoine, Viking Film
Supported by the Lithuanian Film Centre

The Wednesday Child /A Szerdai gyerek (Hungary)
Directed by Lili Horváth